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Get ready to gasp and ooh and ahh. These are the cutest photos you will see all week. All currently happening at the Farmer's Husband!

Baby parade 2013

April 24, 2013

Deloris, the Guernsey x Toggenburg doe kid.

Sorry you haven’t heard from us much lately. We don’t have internet access at our new farm yet, and we’ve had lots of babies to squeeze. Lots and lots of babies. To date, our gals have produced 26 lambs and kids. Here is a photo list of who’s given birth to what on the farm this year. We will update as more kids hit the ground to help us keep them all straight, and to provide some cute babies for you to enjoy.Goats March 15, 2013, Gertie the Toggenburg doe gave birth to twin girls, sired by the Guernsey buck, Brady. Dolly, is a flaxen blond color and polled, and Deloris is a dark Sundgau color with gold markings and is disbudded.

March 24, 2013, Esther the Toggenburg doe had triplet girls. Dottie is a dark Sundgau pattern, with gold marking, and a white spot on her head, and is polled. Daisy is almost white with a bit of blond, and is disbudded. Daphne is almost white as well with a touch of gold, and is disbudded.

Daphne, Daisy, and Dottie Guernsey x Toggenburg triplets

March 31 (Easter day), Trixie the Sable Saanen doe had one boy and one girl. The boy was sold shortly after birth. The girl, Dixie, is very light blond in color, and is polled.

April 3, 2013, Bramble the Guernsey (well mostly Guernsey) doe produced a boy and a girl, from Brady, the Guernsey buck. Dick is blond at the head, fading to red at the haunches, and is disbudded. Dorcas is solid ginger red from head to tail, and is polled.

Dorcas and Dick, British Guernsey goat kids

Dick and Dorcas, offspring of Brady and Bramble.

April 5, Banbury the Guernsey (HB2) doe had twin boys, from Brady, the Guernsey buck. Dudley is an even blond with small white spots on his face, and is disbudded. Dexter is an even ginger red with white spotting on his face, and is polled.

Dudley, the British Guernsey buckling

Dexter, the British Guernsey buckling

April 6, 2013, Vapors, the Sable Saanen doe had twin boys. They were sold a few days later for pets/meat. They were both white.

Vapors and boys.

April 9, 2013, Aggie, the Toggenburg doe had one boy and one girl. The boy was a flaxen gold color, and was sold for a pet or meat. Dusty, the girl, is a light flaxen color, and is polled.

Thomas and Dusty.

April 17, 2013, Millie, the Nubian mix doe gave birth to twin boys. One boy is a medium gold color and has gone to live with our friend Meagan, and the other is a black and white cou blanc pattern with floppy ears. He is available for a pet/meat home.

Calvin, the Guernsey, Nubian, Alpine mix

Sheep

March 27, 2013, Michelle, the East Frisian ewe had two ram lambs by our Katahdin ram, Cranston. They are both white, and are growing rapidly.

Twin ram lambs. Katahdin x Friesian

March 31 (Easter) 2013, Maggie the Katahdin had triplets, sired by Marvin, the East Friesian ram. One boy and one girl (Wanda) are being raised by Maggie, and the other girl (Wendy) is being bottle fed, as she was rejected by her mom.

Boy and Wanda, Friesian x Katahdin lambs

Wendy, the bottle lamb. Friesian x Katahdin

April 3, 2013, Aster the Icelandic ewe had twin boys from Marvin, the Frisian ram. They are very fast growers, and are already looking delicious.

Aster with her boys. Friesian x Icelandic.

April 13, 2013, Coco, the Icelandic ewe had 2 ram lambs from Cranston, the Katahdin ram. It will be hard to eat them, they’re so cute.

Katahdin x Icelandic ram lamb.

Katahdin x Icelandic ram lamb

We have a few more does due to kid in June, and will update this list as babies are born. The pure Guernsey boys are for sale. The ram lambs could also be for sale if they are of interest to anyone, but will most likely be finished in our pastures and sold as meat this autumn. All girls, both lambs and kids, will be kept for breeding purposes. A few older does may be available this autumn.

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A couple Saturdays ago I spent the day out in the Great Northeast at the Holemesburg Fish & Game Protective Association giving lectures on taxidermy to the youth of America. I tend to be very awkward around children; I don't understand them, I find them too unpredictable and difficult to communicate with so it's probably not hard to imagine me lying awake the night before wondering just what the hell I was supposed to say to these kids. I had no idea what to expect.

What I got was a mixed bag of awesome and insane. I set up my booth and braced myself for the impending waves of children. They came in groups of ten, I would talk for about twenty minutes, and the next group would arrive. Some were as young as four, and were quite enthusiastic about grabbing my deer legs right off the table and beating my coyote rug with them.

Some were as old as 19, and I found them much easier to speak with. In fact, a good deal of the young people there were part of an organization called "Police Explorers", which is basically like young junior cadets. The police academy was right next to the park, and these kids come out and train every weekend. They were in full uniform, complete with polished boots and utility belts with mace and cuffs. I found them incredibly fascinating; they were all engaging, articulate, and driven.

Very impressive. Over at the Academy a SWAT team was performing detonation drills and one of the officials came over to warn me about the impending blasts. I told him I'd already heard (felt, actually) the first one and he explained that no, that was an actual device being detonated and not a drill. They'd picked it up in Germantown the day before. I think the junior cadets were laughing at me as my jaw dropped. "I didn't hear anything about that on the news," I said, to which one of the teens responded, "That's cause people would go nuts".

I was really starting to like these kids.

There were other stations set one, one was a fur trapper:

He was popular because he brought a trap and had kids stick their fingers in it for fun.

Then there was the local game commissioner.

Oh, and shooting.

Lots and lots of shooting. Balloons as targets, cause it was a youth event I guess. That's my buddy David below, he's a really nice kid and budding taxidermist!